Hades Picture

He was the son of the titansCronus and Rhea, and brother of Zeus and Poseidon.When they three shared out the universe after they overthrew their father, Cronus, Hades won the Underworld.There he governed the kingdom of the dead with his queen, Persephone, who was kidnapped by him in the Upperworld.Even he was a ferocious God, he wasn't malignant. He was quite passive and often was entrusted to keep the balance.

The Underworld was called Hades. it was divided in two regions: Elysian Fields, where the dead went in when they died (similar to the Heaven) and Tartarus, the deepest region, where the titans were shut in (alike the Hell). This was a dark and a fatal place watched over by Cerberus, the dog with three heads and a dragon tail, where shadows and strange forms lived in.

Sinister rivers separated the Underworld from the higher one and the old boatman Caronte used to take the souls of the dead trough those waters.